2008 in Mexico

2008 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2008 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Felipe Calderón
Interior Secretary (SEGOB)
Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, until January 16
Juan Camilo Mouriño, January 16-November 4 (died in office)
Fernando Gómez Mont, starting November 10
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez
Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván
Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)
Beatriz Zavala, until December 9
Ernesto Cordero Arroyo, starting December 9
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova
Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens
Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas
Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): Salvador Vega Casillas
Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez
Secretary of Economy (SE)
Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape, until August 6
Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, starting August 6
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia
Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso, (National Action Party, PAN)
Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán, (PAN)
Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All)
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Colima: Silverio Cavazos, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Durango: Ismael Hernández, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva, (National Action Party, PAN)
Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
State of Mexico: Enrique Pena Nieto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel, (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (until 15 February); Leonel Godoy Rangel (Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) (from 15 February)
Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame (PAN).
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: José Natividad González Parás, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Puebla: Mario Marín Torres, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón (National Action Party, PAN)
Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Fraga, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Sonora: Eduardo Bours, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores, (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz (National Action Party, PAN)
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco (Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI)
Zacatecas: Amalia García (Party of the Democratic Revolution PRD)
Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard (PRD)
Events
Macrolimosna
June 1–2: Tropical Storm Arthur 2008
July 20–21: Hurricane Dolly 2008
August 3–8: XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008
September: Riots in the La Mesa Prison
September 15: 2008 Morelia grenade attacks
October 6–7: Tropical Storm Marco 2008
November 4: 2008 Mexico City plane crash
November 26: Premios Oye! 2008
Elections
2008 Mexican elections
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
Eliseo Medina
David Coss
Monica C. Lozano
Patricia Torres-Ray
Popular culture
Sports
Primera División de México Clausura 2008
2008 Primera División de México Apertura
2008 North American SuperLiga
2008 InterLiga
2008 Carrera Panamericana
2008 NASCAR Corona Series season
2008 Rally México
2008 LATAM Challenge Series season
2008 Centrobasket
2008 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
2008 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2008)
2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
2008 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Guadalajara)
2008 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Turkey
2008 NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
2008 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships
2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships
2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Mexico at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Music
Film
Literature
TV
Telenovelas
Fuego en la Sangre
Las Tontas No Van al Cielo
Alma de Hierro
Querida Enemiga
Cuidado con el ángel
Juro Que Te Amo
Un Gancho al Corazón
En Nombre del Amor
Mañana Es Para Siempre
Notable deaths
January 10 – Andrés Henestrosa
January 17 – Alejandro Illescas
January 30 – Marcial Maciel
February 2 – Francisco de Santiago Silva, visual artist
February 11 – Emilio Carballido
February 25 – Alan Ledesma, 30, actor, stomach cancer.
March 22 – Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera
April 8 – Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, actress, melanoma.
April 10 – Ernesto Corripio Ahumada
April 14 – Miguel Galvan, 50, actor, renal failure.
May 8 – Leopoldo Juárez Urbina, politician (Convergence), former municipal president of Cherán, Michoacán; murdered.
May 24 – Eugenio Garza Lagüera
June 1 – Marcelo Ibarra Villa, politician , municipal president of Villa Madero, Michoacán; murdered.
June 4 – Manuel de Jesús Angulo Torres, politician , municipal president of Topia, Durango; murdered
June 21 – Adalberto Almeida y Merino
July 24 – Juan Manuel Orozco Serrano, politician , former municipal president of Cuautitlán, Jalisco; murdered.
July 25 — Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Ávila (born 1955)
July 27 – Isaac Saba Raffoul
July 30 – Alejandro Aura
August 30 – Gilberto Rincón Gallardo
September 24 – Héctor Lorenzo Ríos, politician , municipal president of Ayutla, Guerrero; murdered.
September 29 – Miguel Córcega, 78, actor and director, stroke.
October 4 – Servando González
October 8 – Salvador Vergara Cruz, politician , municipal president of Ixtapan de la Sal, State of Mexico; murdered.
November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño
December 2 – Carlos Abascal
December 12 – Amalia Solórzano, First Lady of Mexico (1934-1940) (b. 1911)
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